2011/1/13 Erik Carlin <erik.car...@rackspace.com>: > I would just call it VMDK. That's what Vmware > (http://www.vmware.com/technical-resources/interfaces/vmdk.html) and > everyone else calls it, even though there may be extra files to support > it. We're just naming the disk format here.
So, that's a "no" to adding VMX as an appliance format? > We had also talked about the IMG disk format to support AMIs but RAW is > the same thing so we are covered there. Cool, thanks :) -jay > Erik > > > > On 1/13/11 9:15 AM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>2011/1/13 Diego Parrilla Santamaría <diego.parrilla.santama...@gmail.com>: >>> An appliance is the combination of metadata describing the virtual >>>machine >>> plus the virtual disks. The standard format in the virtualization >>>industry >>> is OVF. Basically, differs from VMX+VMDK(s) because it has a XML format >>>that >>> describes the virtual machine (and little bit its environment like >>> firewalling, policies, etc...). >>> VMX is VMware specific, and OVF is vendor agnostic (or should be...). >>>From >>> my perspective VMX + VMDK(s) is not an appliance format, but this is the >>> kind of topic for a long discussion ;-) >>> If you are looking for a simple way to describe the virtual machine >>> parameters for an appliance, check OVF specs to get some inspiration. I >>> think OVF full spec is overkill because the simpler approach of Nova. >> >>Thanks for the explanation, Diego! Much appreciated. >> >>The question arises because we are wondering what information to store >>in Glance's registry that describes an image. I had proposed the >>following, with additions from John Purrier: >> >>disk_format: choices: VHD, VDI, VMDK, RAW, & QCOW2 >>appliance_format: choices: OVF, OVA, & AMI. >> >>Do you agree that we should put VMX in the list of appliance formats, >>as Ewan Mellor suggested? >> >>Cheers! >>jay >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >>Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >>Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >>More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp